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Re: Trapped in Flash

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jun 11, 2010 10:54AM

Courtney,
There is an issue with Flash content and keyboard access that is often seen in Firefox, but since you're describing the problem in IE, it seems like you're experiencing something different than that.

It is possible that the flash content is trapping the focus and not releasing it to the content that follows. This is not a correct behavior, so the Flash developer needs to address that.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7500)
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 11:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Trapped in Flash

Hi all,

thanks for the suggestions.

I'm curious though, as to whether this whole keyboard trap issue with some Flash jobects is specific to JAWS, or common among screen readers in general, or what.
The answer to that may help me determine whether the pages could be considered 508 compliant as long as the Flash content is made available another way such as via HTML. I don't want to ding someone if the problem is screen reader specific and not a real 508 or general accessibility problem. Personally, becoming stuck in the Flash object and having to refresh the page decreases the page's accessibility. but that's just my two cents. (grins)

thanks and sorry for the ramble.

Courtney